The other challenge was that it was pouring tropical rain every afternoon over the giant crowds of people. Navigating the Streets of São Paulo during carnival is hard, especial trying to squeeze through crowds at “Bloco’s” or travelling street parties, with my camera gear. I stayed with her and her family and was warmly welcomed to the Ortega family and their many dogs. We decided to collaborate on telling the Carnival story through the eyes of Paulista’s. I reached out to my dear friend, Romy Ortega, who manages numerous electronic music artists in São Paulo and also serves as my unofficial guide to the streets of the city. The people are friendly and proud, with absurdly great style - I hoped to have captured and showcased this culture as genuinely as possible. São Paulo offers great cityscape backdrops with pastel tones and brutalist buildings. It's a space where the lines between gender and sexuality are very much blurred and for a couple of days during Carnival, the whole city turns into a giant middle finger towards the Brazilian fascist government. The aim of my series is to tell the story of São Paulo (Paulista) culture, a Brazilian street subculture that can only be described in a plethora of images. This project showcases various subjects from my travels to São Paulo–friends and models to people on the streets, artists and music producers.
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